Re: Olympia - my spy reports back....

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:13:07 +0000 (UTC), "Mike Andrews"
<mikea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:28:06 +0100, Chris Suslowicz <chris+news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <C258D23696683DB9C@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

s/home made Megger/Indium injection laser[1]//

Chris.
J.Bull of Cheltenham was selling them some time ago - ex-Simfire training
kits for MBT main gun. Nice chunky solid-state infrared laser of rather
substantial output: it had to have several miles range in daylight with
dust & smoke (etc.) present.

Ooooohhhhh.

With a doubler crystal in the path, it should be a very nice ... what?
Blue? Green? laser.

Those are 1064 YAGs, if they're the same main-battle-tank aiming lasers
I'm thinking of. (so that'd be 532 green, same as green pointers)

Extra-cavity frequency doubling is *woefully* inefficient, though, you
really want intracavity FD and you'd need to replace/recoat the HR and OC
mirrors to be HR 532/1064 and HR 1064/ partial 532 respectively.

Really, you don't want to mess with that stuff, most of the time.

A 10-50 mW 532nm pointer (YAG/YVO pumped with an 808 nm IR laserdiode,
firing 1064, intra-cavity frequency doubled with KTP to 532 -- it's
pumping with a 500 mW or so laserdiode for that performance) is under a
hundred bucks these days.

Even a 1 Watter of 532 is relatively affordable (as in, cheaper than the
surplus plus mods).

hey still got any? How much?

I think they were sold out in '02 somewhere.

Jasper
.

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